The PhD student Lourenço Ramos Pinto from the Group of Fish Nutrition and Immunobiology of CIIMAR (University of Porto) and SPAROS Lda. (Algarve, Portugal) has conducted a short stage of 2 weeks with the Nutrigenomics and Fish Growth Endocrinology Group (Institute of Aquaculture Torre la Sal, IATS-CSIC) within the framework of the ALISSA (Bases para uma alimentação saudável e sustentável para peixes de aquaculture) project.

Over his stage the multivariate analysis of the effect of amino acid supplementation on the molecular signatures of tissue-specific markers of growth and immunological status of fish fed plant-based diets has been completed.